135 Quotes by Marianne Faithfull

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

I’m a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, ‘sociologist.’

I’ve got to where I’ve always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I’ve learned not to care what other people think. It’s happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I do have a strong sense of God. It’s impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin’s.

I don’t like the compression on compact discs. It’s lacking in air, and it’s lacking in majesty.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you’ll do to the next person you’re involved with, if you get half a chance.